Congratulations Privacy International Fundación Karisma on this important win for privacy, rights of Colombian lawyers at Inter-American Court of Human Rights eff.org/deeplinks/2024… via @eff

We're delighted to be highlighted in Fondation Botnar report. Follow Digital Health and Rights Project to see what we do next #HumanRights #TechNews

Today we published our response to the #GlobalDigitalCompact Zero Draft with Digital Transformations for Health Lab!

Among our recommendations, we call on leaders to integrate health into the Compact.

Check out our full response here: stopaids.org.uk/2024/04/15/dig…

Richard, Tinashe and Wakesho are having a great time at the Amnesty Youth Summit! Amnesty Tech GNP+ Restless Development

Tomorrow, they will be running a session on DHRP's work on digital health, human rights advocacy & youth empowerment ✊

So proud of representatives from Digital Health and Rights Project including Wakesho kililo Tinashe Rufurwadzo Restless Development joining youth advocates from around the world building a movement for human rights online Amnesty Tech this weekend 💪

Hundreds of youth leaders are calling for a more inclusive and secure digital world at the Global Youth Summit on Digital Rights.

Millions of young people, particularly in underserved communities, lack internet access.

While young people are active online, they face harassment.

🌐Exciting times ahead for global digital governance! As a proud member of the Digital Health and Rights Project we're gearing up to shape the future with our advocacy priorities for the Global Digital Compact. Here's what we're pushing for 👇
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Meg Davis STOPAIDS

Today Digital Health and Rights Project honors our wonderful colleague Irene Kpodo (centre), foundational member of our participatory action research project. A thoughtful, tireless champion of data, digital rights of women, youth, communities in Ghana NAP+ Ghana UNAIDS GHANA GNP+

A useful, clear analysis of US AI policy

I’m hiring!!!! No for real, the O'Neill-Lancet Commission on RSDGH is looking for a writer. Details below.

Hoping to see a better Ghana where LGBTIQ+ people would also feel safe to live, grow and thrive in the country, transgender musician and activist, Angel Maxine 🏳‍⚧TRUMU TRUMU #KilltheBill #LoveIsOurWill🏳️‍🌈 shares her lived experienced and challenges she went through in the country.

📽️ Enrique Anarte (he/him) Openly 🏳️‍🌈

Note to self to stop answering my emails 😎

Great to see this area of work growing 👍

A WHO photographer in Gaza: ‘There’s just an overwhelming need for peace’ | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI 'hallucination'), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it.

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I love you siblings. You deserve the world and more. In me you have an unwavering commitment to protecting, promoting and fulfilling your right to health and broadly fighting like hell for a just and equitable society one in which you thrive not merely barely survive. 🩷💙🩷

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza , it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt at United Nations Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

Israel has reportedly used facial recognition surveillance technology in Gaza, per The New York Times. This would amount to mass surveillance and be incompatible with international human rights law.

Learn more from HRW on potential harms of facial recognition tech: hrw.org/news/2023/09/2…

United Nations CSW Human Rights Watch Widad Franco Heather Barr joyce bukuru Sherine Tadros Amnesty UN Office .Human Rights Watch: 'A country that jails women simply because they advocate for their rights has no business being the face of the UN’s top forum for women’s rights and gender equality.' #SaudiArabia

I like this, but prefer to think of quantification as an abstraction, more like taking one pine needle and trying to use it to say something about a tree. You can say useful things about the tree, but you fail to capture its tree-ness. 🌲